Book contents
- Luxury in Global Perspective
- Studies in Comparative World History
- Luxury in Global Perspective
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Precious things in motion: Luxury and the circulation of jewels in Mughal India
- 2 Diamonds as global luxury commodity
- 3 Gold in twentieth-century India: A luxury?
- 4 Chinese porcelain in local and global context: The imperial connection
- 5 Luxury or commodity? The success of Indian cotton cloth in the first global age
- 6 The gendered luxury of wax prints in South Ghana: A local luxury good with global roots
- 7 From Venice to East Africa: History, uses, and meanings of glass beads
- 8 Imports and autarky: Tortoiseshell in early modern Japan
- 9 Tickling and clicking the ivories: The metamorphosis of a global commodity in the nineteenth century
- 10 The conservation of luxury: Safari hunting and the consumption of wildlife in twentieth-century East Africa
- Luxury as a global phenomenon: Concluding remarks
- Index
- References
Studies in Comparative World History
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2017
Book contents
- Luxury in Global Perspective
- Studies in Comparative World History
- Luxury in Global Perspective
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Precious things in motion: Luxury and the circulation of jewels in Mughal India
- 2 Diamonds as global luxury commodity
- 3 Gold in twentieth-century India: A luxury?
- 4 Chinese porcelain in local and global context: The imperial connection
- 5 Luxury or commodity? The success of Indian cotton cloth in the first global age
- 6 The gendered luxury of wax prints in South Ghana: A local luxury good with global roots
- 7 From Venice to East Africa: History, uses, and meanings of glass beads
- 8 Imports and autarky: Tortoiseshell in early modern Japan
- 9 Tickling and clicking the ivories: The metamorphosis of a global commodity in the nineteenth century
- 10 The conservation of luxury: Safari hunting and the consumption of wildlife in twentieth-century East Africa
- Luxury as a global phenomenon: Concluding remarks
- Index
- References
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- Luxury in Global PerspectiveObjects and Practices, 1600–2000, pp. iii - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016
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